Circus

Circus

A public entertainment consisting performances by acrobats, clowns, and trained animals, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other stunt-oriented performers.

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Circus

ring 1

Entertainment; Circus

One of the simplest apparatuses widely used in circuses in aerial and floor acts.

ring 2

Entertainment; Circus

A circular section of the arena where circus acts are performed.

risley

Entertainment; Circus

An acrobatic act in which one person juggles another on his/her feet.

In the first instance, an aerial genre where tricks are performed on rope fastened on the top of hanging down freely. In the second instance, a rope is stretched horizontally, parallel to the ring ...

rope walker

Entertainment; Circus

In former times high-rope walkers performed on city squares and streets; the rope stretched between houses, river banks or watch-towers. The last bright example of such performance was a famous ...